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> Especially when promises and plans to use some of those windfalls of progress to help those harmed by it, seem never to see much follow-through.

The poor are economically better off than at almost any point in history; actual food poverty is almost unknown, objectively people are living in better houses than ever before, and so on. It just doesn't seem like any of that makes poor people any happier or poverty any less wretched, somehow.

>>lmm+(OP)
I don't mean the poor, broadly, I mean people who were doing OK, but then aren't, after some major advance in technology or some change in economic policy. For the older ones, especially, "here's some money to retrain" (which they might get if they're lucky) doesn't compensate them for the harm they're suffering so that the overall pie, if you will, can grow.

For people caught in that kind of situation, progress sucks.